Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The eminent English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was born on 12 October 1872 at the vicarage in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, the youngest of the three children of the Revd Arthur Charles Vaughan Williams (1834-1875) and his wife, Margaret Wedgwood (1842-1937). When Arthur died in 1875, his widow and children moved to Leith Hill Place, Surrey, Margaret's family home. In 1883 Ralph began preparatory school at Field House, Rottingdean, Sussex, and early in 1887 he went on to Charterhouse School, which he attended for three and a half years. He played in the orchestra at Charterhouse and in 1888 organized a concert there which included a piano trio composed by him.

Notes: Two collections of Ralph Vaughan Williams' papers are represented here: his Folk Song collection at the British Library (referred to in the ... Full English as RVW2), and the smaller collection at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (RVW1).
RVW1 Ralph Vaughan Williams' folk song papers held at the English Folk Dance & Song Society. These are arranged as follows:
RVW1/1 comprises mainly correspondence and song texts, mostly written by people other than Vaughan Williams. Some may be from other collectors, but others are clearly in the hand of the singers from whom Vaughan Williams noted the song, or their families.
RVW1/2 contains mainly tune notations.
RVW1/3 is Vaughan Williams' broadside collection comprising 84 items.
RVW2 Ralph Vaughan Williams' folk song papers held at the British Library. This collection consists of three thick bound octavo volumes (RVW2/1 to RVW2/3), one bound quarto volume (RVW2/4), six small unbound ms books (one quarto and five octavo) (RVW2/5 to RVW2/10), and four loose sheets of ms paper (RVW2/11). The three octavo volumes each contain a number of small oblong manuscript books bound together. The corresponding British Library catalogue numbers are: Add MS 54189-54191 | Add MS 59535 A-M | Add MS 59536. See more

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